There’s clip going around that makes it look like President Donald Trump refused to acknowledge a little boy in a wheelchair at a recent event on Obamacare. But, as you can see below, the clip was edited to omit how President Trump actually did address the kid directly at the beginning of the event.
First up, here’s the edited version:
Child in wheelchair reaches up twice to shake the president's hand pic.twitter.com/v2cNVwX9Je
— Ansel Herz (@Ansel) July 24, 2017
Editor’s Note: @Ansel deleted his tweet with the clip, but here it is from YouTube:
Now here’s the full clip where you can see the president kneel down and speak with the child:
She's doing great work! Not sure that clip is as bad as it seems though: https://t.co/ym1nnwahQ6
— Nick Borriello (@BorrielloNick) July 28, 2017
But it’s too late has Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling tweet-stormed the edited video and it’s now gone viral with 58,000+ RTs and counting:
'When someone shows you who they are, believe them.' – Maya Angelou https://t.co/Op6HUrRo80
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
Trump imitated a disabled reporter. Now he pretends not to see a child in a wheelchair, as though frightened he might catch his condition.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
This monster of narcissism values only himself and his pale reflections. The disabled, minorities, transgender people, the poor, women
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
(unless related to him by ties of blood, and therefore his creations) are treated with contempt, because they do not resemble Trump.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
My mother used a wheelchair. I witnessed people uncomfortable around her disability, but if they had a shred of decency they got over it. 1/
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
So, yes, that clip of Trump looking deliberately over a disabled child's head, ignoring his outstretched hand, has touched me on the raw. /2
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
She needs to delete that tweet and apologize.
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